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...“Potters who couldn’t afford clay would often steal it from the Roman roads as they were built on top of a heavy layer of clay, causing deep holes in the road surface.”...
...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Labour’s manifesto will be finalised when Starmer holds a “Clause V meeting” attended by the shadow cabinet, union representatives and other senior party figures, but that cannot happen until Sunak calls...
...In 2010, the designer picked up a George III carved mahogany bedpost at a Chatsworth House attic sale at Sotheby’s....
...This could only provide a hint of the vast richness of Hindustani and Carnatic music, but the driving percussion duo of V SelvaGanesh and Swaminathan Selvaganesh was gripping, and the Carnatic singing of...
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Players continue to flock to GTA V a decade after it was first released, thanks to a steady stream of new content and add-ons from its developer, Rockstar....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...When Denzil Lush was a child, his grandmother was about to throw away a mass-produced coronation beaker with a portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. “This was the early 1960s,” he says....
...Gordon Ng Year 11 student, King George V school Hong Kong...
...Highlights The film producers behind Netflix’s Drive to Survive, the docuseries that helped revitalise Formula One, are raising around £30mn from George Pyne’s Bruin Capital, the FT exclusively reported...
...“I decided I’d do something which couldn’t be killed by freak weather so I began making things that looked like trees and plants and flowers,” says James in a 1978 film presented by George Melly, the English...
...V, should be served with Cypriot brandy sauce....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...He also updated the first-floor private apartments and modernised the powder rooms with the help of the famous British royal plumbing firm George Jennings....
...This Mughal chronicle was gifted to King George III as British power waxed in India. Some folios are by signed artists such as Murar, who portrayed himself in a corner....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...Working clay in 43-degree temperatures is new territory for the Fenland potter. But she perseveres....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
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